in the number of vacancies has a very weak effect on the number of unemployed workers being hired: unemployed workers … appear to be unable to compete for many available jobs. Vacancies are filled quickly and there is no (or only weak) evidence … that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies; hiring appears to be determined by labour demand while frictions …

vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make it more difficult, due to the … unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …

percent increase in the statelevel effective minimum wage reduces vacancies by 2.4 percent in the same quarter, and the … cumulative effect is as large as 4.5 percent a year later. The negative effect on vacancies is more pronounced for occupations …. We argue that our focus on vacancies versus on employment has a distinct advantage of highlighting a mechanism through …

stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option …